Friday, February 27, 2009
New Layout
Sheesh! After much tampering with confusing code, I finally got my own background and header for my blog. Nothing fancy, but I just wanted to be able to have the control to change it myself! Now I can make my own backgrounds and perhaps "theme" the blog per season. This seems to have a wintery-turning-to-spring-soon kind of feel....maybe?
Yesterday was a poopy day!
Okay, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the best day ever either! Woke up around 3am sweating my arse off! Had to strip off the socks and shirt and attempt to fall back asleep. Rolled around until about 6 when Jim left for work. Took my temp (for charting purposes....see two posts back) and of course it was high! Then rolled around for another 45 min and got up. Work was average, got home and had a nice lunch with Jim since he got home early.
Then I proceeded to vacuum the entire house. That's when it hit me.....cramps, crabbiness and really tired from lack of continuous sleep! I pretty much just dragged around the rest of the day. I forgot to put the pork roast in the crock pot in the morning as well....so I attempted to make it in the oven. "30 - 45 min" my butt. It was in there over an hour and still not done. We had to take it out a pitch it because we had our financial class to go to and there was no way I was gonna try to eat a partially done pork roast and risk getting sick over it. We hit up a coney island and grabbed hot dogs before our class. I felt like a totally failure, but eh, it happens to the best of us, right?
Came home and pretty much crashed. Woke up this morning at 1am to rumbling thunderstorms. Then again, woke up at 5 when Jim's alarm went off. Tempted at 5:25 when Jim left and it still seemed a little high, but that's okay. I just don't know why I can't sleep through the night the last week or so! I keep waking up at some point earlier than I usually do. It's kind of annoying.
Tonight is the sleep study for Jim. We are nervous and excited to get this issue taken care of. I just hope everything is easily treatable.
Then I proceeded to vacuum the entire house. That's when it hit me.....cramps, crabbiness and really tired from lack of continuous sleep! I pretty much just dragged around the rest of the day. I forgot to put the pork roast in the crock pot in the morning as well....so I attempted to make it in the oven. "30 - 45 min" my butt. It was in there over an hour and still not done. We had to take it out a pitch it because we had our financial class to go to and there was no way I was gonna try to eat a partially done pork roast and risk getting sick over it. We hit up a coney island and grabbed hot dogs before our class. I felt like a totally failure, but eh, it happens to the best of us, right?
Came home and pretty much crashed. Woke up this morning at 1am to rumbling thunderstorms. Then again, woke up at 5 when Jim's alarm went off. Tempted at 5:25 when Jim left and it still seemed a little high, but that's okay. I just don't know why I can't sleep through the night the last week or so! I keep waking up at some point earlier than I usually do. It's kind of annoying.
Tonight is the sleep study for Jim. We are nervous and excited to get this issue taken care of. I just hope everything is easily treatable.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
It's Lent
So I've contemplated and figured out what I am "giving up." I'm not really giving up anything...except for perhaps an hour of unnecessary morning sleep. I have woken up about an hour earlier than I used to for the past 3 days. But with this time, I have to do something a little more productive than laying in bed watching tv.
Today: Laundry. It's a good place to start since I can still kind of relax at the same time while the wash is going. The goal is work up to exercising. If I could get up and exercise for 30 minutes in the morning before I start my day, hopefully it would improve my health issues and would definitely be a good routine to stick with. Supposedly it takes 30 days to acquire (or break) a habit. So lent is 40 days. If I can incorporate exercise into daily life (hopefully God will be enough motivation I need since I have a hard time just doing it for myself), then hopefully I would have a healthy habit that will stay with me forever.
Today: Laundry. It's a good place to start since I can still kind of relax at the same time while the wash is going. The goal is work up to exercising. If I could get up and exercise for 30 minutes in the morning before I start my day, hopefully it would improve my health issues and would definitely be a good routine to stick with. Supposedly it takes 30 days to acquire (or break) a habit. So lent is 40 days. If I can incorporate exercise into daily life (hopefully God will be enough motivation I need since I have a hard time just doing it for myself), then hopefully I would have a healthy habit that will stay with me forever.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wow...A lot to talk about...Kinda!
There just seems to be so much going on in our lives lately. Nothing overly exciting, but a lot of changes. Not only am I becoming Catholic officially at Easter, we are changing the way we live with a new budget, trying to fix up our house, trying to schedule our lives better, eat better, and we are starting to think about (just thinking about right now) starting our family. We are of course waiting until we get the house together and get our budget under control.
But that doesn't mean my research hasn't already begun! And well it has led me to an amazing book that EVERY woman should read. It's called "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." Without getting into too much detail, this book is like the handbook to what a woman's body is doing at any given moment. Does anyone really know? Some of you I'm sure don't care, but just by doing a few simple "tests" each day such as taking your temperature, you can pinpoint what your body is doing and what part of your cycle you are on.
This is VERY useful to both women who are looking for a natural birth control and for those who want to plan a pregnancy. By timing sex to the most fertile time in your body, you are most likely to conceive of course. And the opposite, planning to use back up protection during this time of the month you will be sure not to!
End of that subject.
So lent is approaching. And being that on am on the journey to Catholicism, this lent is a little more important than any I have particpated in in the past. I want to make this a good one. And being that Jim and I are going through so many lifestyle changes as it is, might as well keep up the good work. It has to be something challenging, but not too challenging. I have a few ideas. My one idea that could be good for a lot of personal issues would be: Give up morning tv and make myself get out of bed in the morning. Just like now, I get up, and proceed to lay in my comfy bed and watch the morning news. Today I am getting a little more done by blogging and surfing the net, but it's not that much better than watching tv, and I should be out of this bed and doing my interneting in the kitchen or something. I should do something more productive in the morning. The looming "exercise" comes to mind, and well, perhaps it is really time to give it a try. Aparently it is the answer to all my problems (excessive tiredness, moodiness, weight gain). So if the answer is so easy, why is it I can't seem to do it! Something for me to think about. Lent starts on Thursday.
It's a busy week for us this week. We are free and clear to paint today and tomorrow. We haven't gotten very far since we've begun, but we are still motivated to get it done. Wednesday is the Ash Wednesday church service, Thursday is Financial Planning class, Friday Jim has a sleep study in the evening, Saturday is my Rite of Election as part of the journey to Catholicism, Sunday is church and RCIA (Catholic class) and then we have dinner plans with some good friends.
Here's to a good week!!
But that doesn't mean my research hasn't already begun! And well it has led me to an amazing book that EVERY woman should read. It's called "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." Without getting into too much detail, this book is like the handbook to what a woman's body is doing at any given moment. Does anyone really know? Some of you I'm sure don't care, but just by doing a few simple "tests" each day such as taking your temperature, you can pinpoint what your body is doing and what part of your cycle you are on.
This is VERY useful to both women who are looking for a natural birth control and for those who want to plan a pregnancy. By timing sex to the most fertile time in your body, you are most likely to conceive of course. And the opposite, planning to use back up protection during this time of the month you will be sure not to!
End of that subject.
So lent is approaching. And being that on am on the journey to Catholicism, this lent is a little more important than any I have particpated in in the past. I want to make this a good one. And being that Jim and I are going through so many lifestyle changes as it is, might as well keep up the good work. It has to be something challenging, but not too challenging. I have a few ideas. My one idea that could be good for a lot of personal issues would be: Give up morning tv and make myself get out of bed in the morning. Just like now, I get up, and proceed to lay in my comfy bed and watch the morning news. Today I am getting a little more done by blogging and surfing the net, but it's not that much better than watching tv, and I should be out of this bed and doing my interneting in the kitchen or something. I should do something more productive in the morning. The looming "exercise" comes to mind, and well, perhaps it is really time to give it a try. Aparently it is the answer to all my problems (excessive tiredness, moodiness, weight gain). So if the answer is so easy, why is it I can't seem to do it! Something for me to think about. Lent starts on Thursday.
It's a busy week for us this week. We are free and clear to paint today and tomorrow. We haven't gotten very far since we've begun, but we are still motivated to get it done. Wednesday is the Ash Wednesday church service, Thursday is Financial Planning class, Friday Jim has a sleep study in the evening, Saturday is my Rite of Election as part of the journey to Catholicism, Sunday is church and RCIA (Catholic class) and then we have dinner plans with some good friends.
Here's to a good week!!
Monday, February 9, 2009
New Project
We are FINALLY painting our family room. It's been in disarray since before Christmas!! So here is the before picture.....hopefully in a week there will be an awesome after picture!!
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